| Location: Cypress,TX, Member Since: Oct 10, 2009 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 5K: 24:22 (March 2010); 22:33 (October 2010); 20:47 (May 2011); 21:05 (May 2012); 21:33 (September 2012); 21:23 (November, 2013); 22:31 (September 2014)
5M: 39:22 (November, 2012); 35:54 (November, 2013); 36:03 (March, 2015)
10K: 44:08 (November, 2010); 49:20 (July, 2013); 44:07 (April, 2015)
12K: 56:03 (December, 2013); 58:58 (December, 2014)
10M: 1:11:58 (October, 2012); 1:15:24 (October, 2014)
Half Marathon: 1:53:xx (London's Run 2010); 2:05:21 (Cowtown 2010); 1:37:04 (Gusher 2011); 1:42:19 (Huntsville 2011); 1:33:47 (Baytown Jailbreak 2012); 1:33:50 (The Woodlands 2012); 1:42:52 (Texas 2015); 1:49:17 (Jailbreak 2015); 1:38:34 (The Woodlands 2015)
25K: 2:01:47 (Fifth Third River Bank, May 2014)
Marathon: 5:51:35 (Texas Marathon 2009); 6:21:36 (Ogden 2009); 4:58:29 (St. George 2009); 4:13:45 (Texas Marathon 2010); 4:04:12 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2010); 5:11:14 (Hartford ING, 2010); 3:41:43 (Richmond SunTrust, 2010); 3:39:27 (Texas Marathon 2011); 3:41:46 (Utah Valley Marathon, 2011); 3:30:35 (St. George 2011); 3:41:51 (Richmond 2012); 3:49:15 (Texas 2013); 3:46:59 (Paavo Nurmi, 2013); 3:34:04 (St. George 2013); 3:49:51 (Texas 2014); 3:31:59 (Richmond 2014); 3:28:34 (Boston 2015) Short-Term Running Goals: 3:20, 1:30, 0:20 Long-Term Running Goals: I'm 60, there is no long term. Personal: I live, work and run in Houston, Texas. I have run 17 marathons, some good ones and some others. I prefer straight, flat, cold, sea-level marathons, still waiting for my first one. I feel like there are more PRs out there. When I have them, I am told it is time to dial it back, run for healthy reasons. I'm sure that's right, and I'm sure it won't happen.
My wife and I are from the mountains of the west. We have five kids, three granddaughters and three grandsons. The kids and grandkids are native Texans but we are not -- you have to be born here.
As for my blog title: I run most of my miles before sunrise, sometimes hours before. On the back road of my neighborhood two hours before daylight, I can depend on a pack of mutts behind the boundary fence lighting up when they hear my footsteps. I have wondered what they wanted; but according to Hemingway I needn't ask. |
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| 36F (28 WC), 51%, N 13-23 mph. Got progressively colder during the run, after a low of 65F yesterday morning. Couldn't get a consistent heart rate readout, so ran mostly by feel. 10.0 in 1:54:46, 11:29/mile. Met Wade for the usual middle miles. We both felt good this morning. Nothing like running slow after a day off.
Followed with stretching then legs at the gym, adding 10 pounds from last week.
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| 42F, 62%, NE 6 mph. 10.0 in 1:55:16, 11:32/mile. Unreliable heart rate readout due to wind and cold weather.
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| 42F, 90%, NNE 4 mph, rain. Roads very wet, socks were soaked by the time I got out of my cul de sac. Was supposed to meet Wade but never found him. Hopefully he did the sensible thing and slept in. My arthritic feet and hands don't like cold, wet weather. But finished the run OK, all the later miles were in the mid to low 11s. 10.0 in 1:54:28, 11:27/mile. Heart rate jumped around again because of the cold, but I think I kept the speed pretty accurate.
Followed up with stretching and weights at the gym. Same program as Monday.
P.M. 5 miles on the TM, 1 mile warmup, then 2 up (3%) and 1 down (4%). Did last mile on the level, then down again for the last bit. Trying to get ready for Boston without injuring myself.
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| 52F, 94% and calm to start, 44F, 89% NNW 10 mph to end. Was underdressed, knew it immediately when I went out the door, but stuck with it. 10.0 in 1:57:05, 11:42/mile, no HR readout, just guessing at the pace, ran conservatively to make sure I stayed in the zone. Time to get a new strap.
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| 40F, 89%, NNW 3 mph. Staying cold, at least for this area. Longer the better. Same old run, 10.0 in 1:56:52, 11:41/mile. I was going to go down to the gym and run hills on a treadmill and just confirm that there is nothing wrong with my actual heart rate (as compared to what I think is a bogus readout on the HRM). The HRM runs OK for a couple of miles, then jumps up to the 175-190 range. I have a high heart rate max for my age (193), but if my heart was actually beating in that range at this speed I am in deep trouble. Anyway, I didn't go, had a meeting with a client come up and had to get in, so missed my third lifting session this week.
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| 38F, 95%, W 1 mph to start, 43F, 90%, W 6 mph at the end. Ran from about 4:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Today was step 1 of my plan to run long-long and chip away at the mental barrier over 20 miles. Hoping to do 3 more of these before Boston. I ran 6 in my neighborhood, took a bio break and ran to Wade's house (2 more miles), then ran about 12 with Wade (interrupted by a second bio break in the woods), which was a huge help (running with Wade, not the bio break -- well, that too I guess). Dropped Wade off just over mile 20 and gutted out the last 10 on my own. He ran 14.5, which works fine for his HM program.
Just like I thought, it was more of a mental barrier than anything. I kept pace throughout -- not necessarily easy but not superhuman effort either, 4:26:26 total run time, 8:53/mile, last 4 were under the overall pace. My heart rate monitor showed about 144 to 147 bpm through 10 then it went batty again. I'm guessing it went up 10 bpm for each 10 miles, probably ending somewhere around 165, didn't feel any higher than that.
Water at mile 6 and mile 20, nothing else. Pretty happy about this run, but need to see if I recover quickly. I went through the marathon in 3:52:57, about 2 minutes under my current BQ standard, so that is one way of looking at it I guess.
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